Improvement in clod-fender



v-fox-adjusting the position of such clod-lender inward M. ggg@ niet Etaient lutin web JQSEPH C. CURRYER AND WILLIAM `l?. CURRYER, OF

` INDIANA.

'THORNTOi/VN,

Letters Patent No. 89,470, dated .April 27, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN GLOB-FENDER.

, H To all whom 'it may concern Be it known that we, JOSEPH C. CURRYER and WILLIAM F. GURRYER, of Thorntown, in the county of Boone, and State of Indiana, have invented a new and valuable Improvement in Glod-Fenders; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription ofthe construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, and to the letters and igures oi' reference marked thereon.

Figure l, of the drawings, is a representation of a plan view of our device;

Figure 2 is a side view; and

Figure 3 is a detail.

Our invention has relation to clod-feuder attachments for plows, used in cultivating between standing rows of corn and other plants, for the purpose of shielding such plants from clods and stones that may be turned over by the plow; and

It consists, mainly, in providing better means than have heretofore been used for attaching such fender to a plow-beam, without impairing the strength of such beam.

It also consists in providing novel and eiticient means or outward upon the plow-beam, in the position required. The letter A, of the drawings, represents a plowbeam, and letter B, the clod-feuder, adjusted on the side thereof.

The letters care staples passing around the plowbeam, and letterss are wedges adj usted between said staples and the plow-beam, in the manuel' shown.

' The let-ter uis'a bolt passingthrough the forward staple c, above the plow-beam, on one end of which we cut a thread, and adjust a uut in the manner represented on iig'l.

The front end of the clod-fender is attached to the bolt u, between its head and the staple, as shown, said bolt serving as a rest and pivot therefor.

and of supporting it The letter c is a rod extending upward from the clod-fender, and which has a thread and nut on its upper end, as shown, andthe letter a is a that passes through the rear staple c. above the plowbeam.

The right-hand end of this sliding rod is provided with a tube, y, through which the rod Iv is passed, and upon the top of which it is made secure by means of the thread and nut last above mentioned.

This tube y serves not only as a rest for the nut on the fender-rod, but also as a guide and support forsaid rod, and prevents the same from being moved to the right or left by clods or stones.

Fig. 3, of the drawings, represents another method we sometimes use in connecting the rear end of the clod-feuder to the plow-beam.

It consists of a flat bar, (l, having the form ofa hook at its left-hand end, as shown on the drawings, and which hook is made to serve as a. substitutefor the tube y, as used in connection with the sliding rod a that is to say, the clod-t`ender rod passes through holes in the upper and lower parts of this hook, and is adjusted therein bythe thread and nut last above mentioned. We lind the device shown on g. 3 to be lcheap and convenient, and recommend its use.

What we claim as our inventiomand desire to secureby Letters Patent, is-

The devices herein described and shown, for attaching a clod-feuder to a plow-beam, consisting of the staples c, wedges s, bolt u, rods Iv and a, with the tube or hook, as described, when constructed, arranged, and operating substantially as herein speciied.

In testimony that we claim the above,'we have hereunto subscribed oml names, in the presence of two witnesses.

JOSEPH C. CURRYER.

\VILLIAM F. GURRYER.

Witnesses:

ABNER V. AUSTIN, PERRY lnmolv sliding rod, 

